Alexia L. Palomino-Cortez, PhD
Graduate Student
Sociology
Pronouns: She/Her/Ella
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About
Previous Degrees:
B.A. Sociology, Loyola University Chicago
Specialty Areas:
Race and Ethnicity, Critical Race Feminisms, Gender & Sexuality, Carcerality, Youth Studies.
Research Interests:
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois Chicago. My work examines the practice of carceral care work, specifically about my year working with Latina youth in a juvenile “delinquency” deterrence program. Utilizing ethnographic methodology, I examine the paradox of carceral care and love within youth policing. Through an overview of critical race feminisms, I contend with the legal socialization of youth and how the work of Latino officers attempts to provide carceral kinship that some youth come to see as vital to their success. My other major work examines the racial formations and politicization of girlhood in the United States and the role of ethnoracial identity within law enforcement. My work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.